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UPDATED FRIDAY AT 7 P.M. — Tonight's events, including the fireworks, in celebration of Independence Day are still a go despite a heavy thunderstorm that passed through the area, Mayor Edwinna Baker confirmed at 7 p.m.

The concert at Lawrenceburg Green was getting ready to start soon, she said.

The fireworks show, which will be presented from the county park, will begin around dusk.

Eleanor V. Timmins was not charged with child abuse as was reported in last week’s District Court docket. When she was charged, a coding error occurred from the arresting officer and was entered into the court’s record. That charge was amended to fourth-degree assault.

Judge Linda Armstrong heard the following cases during Anderson District Court proceedings March 23.

A high school teacher has been cleared of charges that she had inappropriate contact with a student and that she showed him provocative and sexual photos, according to a news release issued by the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department.

Teacher Hannah Scott, 25, was cleared of the allegations following a lengthy investigation that included the sheriff’s department, Federal Bureau of Investigation and other agencies.

As of Tuesday morning, the jury trial for a church keyboardist accused of obtaining a false commercial driver’s license is scheduled to begin early next week.

Lance Roe, a licensed funeral director at Gash Memorial Chapel and organist at First Baptist Church, is charged with complicity to commit unlawful access to a computer, a Class C felony, and second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, a Class D felony.

Following a pair of drought-ridden seasons that left farmers scrambling and paying high prices for the dietary staple, the spring cut this year delivered a veritable bumper crop of the grass they need to keep their animals fed through the winter.

Lawrenceburg farmer John Chilton, who sells the hay he bales on fields he owns in Salvisa, said he’s pleased with this year’s crop.